It may be April Fool’s day, but I’m not kidding you when I say that I ‘ ve stopped buying food storage for a while.

 You may remember that a couple weeks ago, I told ya ‘ ll that my family will be moving soon to Virginia.We’ll be there for one year and then we’ ll move to Florida for 4 years.  

 As you can’t imagine, I immediately started looking at housing options online.  Since we’ll only be in VA for one year, we’ ll be renting.  And with our meager budget we ”ll probably be in a very small 2 bedroom apartment.I ‘ ll admit, I 4 last’m pretty sad about it and I am realizing how lucky I have been for the years to be living in a 3 bedroom house with decent sized closets (and I used to complain about having no basement!)  It’s all relative I guess).  

About moving with food storage last August we posed the question to you.We asked for your advice and you gave it!  Go back and read the comments from that post, they are great!  

To sum it up, I three main options have:  

 Move my food storage with me.  This is a great option if you have the funds to move it and if you will be moving to a place with adequate storage for it all (although, there are many unique places to keep your food storage – you don ‘ t need a large pantry or a basement!)(Abbie is especially creative with where to keep food storage).  

 Store your food storage elsewhere. Some people decide to store their food storage somewhere else for a while, especially if the move is temporary at first (like ours is).  If I wanted to I could probably store most of our food storage at my in laws ‘ home.  They live in GA as well, so when we move down to Florida in a year it would be easy to stop and get it, or to get it after we ‘ ve moved into our permanent home.  

 Eat your food storage now, and start over.This sounds kind of depressing at first.  START OVER?  Are you serious?  After all my hard work, the inventory, etc.?  Just when I what starting to feel good about how much food we have saved up?Well…. yeah.  And guess what-this is the option I have chosen.  

 I’m kind of excited, actually.  Last year in our food storage e-book, we put together a whole shopping list and menu plan for three months of food, which is what I have been following.However, since then we ‘ ve come out with a TON more food storage recipes, which I want to incorporate into my new storage and my menu plan.  So I have this opportunity to totally re vamp my menu plan and mix things up a bit.Maybe instead of three weeks of different meals I ‘ ll plan four (for even more variety).  

 Initially I what worried about going too long without having any food storage. It’s like being without insurance for a of time period – it’s a little bit scary!However, I soon realized that since we are eating through our food storage right now, I’m saving a lot of money by rarely going to the grocery store!All I really buy these days is dairy and produce.Since I am saving so much money now, I am putting aside that money so that when we are moved and settled, I can assess my needs and re-stock a lot of my storage at one time (or, when I see a great sale).

(Finally, let me just specify that we ‘ re eating through our three-month supply, not our longer term storage.)I have lots of boxes of # 10 cans of food (beans, wheat, rice and oats) that I will be moving with us.)

Any other suggestions from anyone?Have I missed any options that I should consider?At I making a huge mistake?:)